WP Secure Maintenance
by Saad Iqbal · WordPress.org page · Website
WP Secure Maintenance has 1,000+ active installs on WordPress.org and 58,213 downloads all time. We have tracked it since September 4, 2026; download trends appear after 30 days of data. The last update was on June 20, 2024, tested up to WordPress 6.5.10.
WP Secure Maintenance at a glance
Is WP Secure Maintenance well maintained?
Features
The feature list from the plugin's own readme on WordPress.org, trimmed to the essentials.
- Set password to protect your site for maintenance or development
- Set your own logo or use default logo
- Change placeholder text for WP Secure Maintenance login form
- Change Submit button label for WP Secure Maintenance’s login form
- Change Error text for WP Secure Maintenance’s login form
WP Secure Maintenance reviews and ratings
5 reviews on WordPress.org, with the most recent ones as their authors posted them.
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Excellent Site Locking Functionality
This plugin works great. It's simple, and does what it says. By removing all page content besides this plugin's, it prevents bots from being able to see what other plugins you have activated (which could be a security issue). Of course, don't expect your website to be impervious to outside visitors guessing your password. There is no brute-force protection in place. Instead, just consider it, as someone else commented in their review, a simple WordPress replacement of HTAccess site locking functionality. No one should expect the things we put on the Internet to remain private, anyway.
Joshua Gerrity -
Great thing with a big problem
I was looking for exactly this type and found. But to perfection is missing one big and fundamental thing. If password maintenance is active. So virtually the entire Wordpress is closed and WPbackup and other plugins that communicate in the background do not work. Solve a site blocking without the other and it's an amazing tool to restrict access to test unfinished sites.
moddo -
A Near Perfect Substitute for HTaccess Authentication
I wanted to leave a review here for this little plugin because it is great for a single reason... (I'm also leaving some recommendations for the plugin author below) This may be the only plugin of it's kind that emulates htaccess authentication without actually using htaccess. Most plugins created to lock websites while they're in development (maintenance mode plugins) either completely block access to the website, or allow an admin to login using a login form on the maintenance screen. The problem with that approach is that if you happen to be doing development on a site with custom login/register screens, you will not be able to see those screens once logging in on the maintenance screen (because you will then be logged into the site, and won't obviously see the login screen you're developing). In the past I would have simply used htaccess authentication (with htpasswd files) to restrict access to the site so only developers could see it. However, I happen to be developing a website right now on Amazon Web Services (AWS) with CloudFront (their CDN). I found that CloudFront is not compatible with htaccess authentication at all. This left me in a real conundrum, as I needed to access restrict our site to developers while still being able to see and work on the website's login/register page. That's where this amazing little plugin came in. This plugin is very simple, but it does what so many other maintenance mode plugins do not. It simply acts as a secondary front door to a website, without interfering with the main front door. When you enter your password into this plugin, it then releases you into the site without actually logging you into WordPress, thus making it possible to do development work on login/register screens. These are a few recommendations and things of note for the plugin author: 1. I recommend adding a lot more settings to control the look and feel, as I had to re-write all of the css in this plugin to get it to look the way I wanted. 2. Add the a
Michael Samson -
Simple & Easy For Every one
Hi There! We have developed simple and easy plugin for WordPress community with which you can lock your whole site with single PIN code. Its pretty handy to use at the time of WordPress based website development or maintenance. Happy WordPressing! :)
WPExperts.io
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Details
Want to lock your site for Maintenance or Development? Then this is the right Plugin
The full description, screenshots and every review live on the WordPress.org page.
Tags
- development
- maintenance
- Maintenance lock
- Site security
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- Version
- 1.7
- Last updated
- Jun 20, 2024
- First published
- Mar 2, 2016
- Requires WordPress
- 5.2
- Tested up to
- 6.5.10
- Requires PHP
- 7.0
- Pricing
- Free on WordPress.org
WP Secure Maintenance FAQ
What does WP Secure Maintenance do?
According to its WordPress.org readme, WP Secure Maintenance offers Set password to protect your site for maintenance or development, Set your own logo or use default logo, Change placeholder text for WP Secure Maintenance login form, Change Submit button label for WP Secure Maintenance’s login form and Change Error text for WP Secure Maintenance’s login form.
How many active installs does WP Secure Maintenance have?
WordPress.org reports 1,000+ active installs for WP Secure Maintenance as of September 7, 2026.
Is WP Secure Maintenance still maintained?
The last release was on June 20, 2024, more than a year ago. WordPress.org shows a warning on plugins that go this long without an update.
Is WP Secure Maintenance free?
WP Secure Maintenance is free to install from WordPress.org. Many plugins also sell a paid version or add-ons.